There is a new documentary movie out this summer that should be required viewing of every American. This is not just because it is a well done movie with good content, which it is, but because the contents of it could determine whether we all go hungry at some point in the future. The movie “THE GRAB” exposes a global conspiracy that was triggered by a curious investigative journalist back in 2014.
Back in 2013 the Shuanghui Group, WH Group, purchased Smithfield Foods for $4.72 billion. It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date. That WH Group, a Hong Kong-based company that is China’s top meat producer, gave them ownership to 1 in 4 American born pigs. This deal made the company the world’s largest pork producer and hog farmer, and the largest pork producer of the United States. It is reported Smithfield slaughters around 30 million hogs annually and sells products under brands such as Armour, Farmland, and Nathan’s Famous.
Where this may sound like a legitimate business deal under the guise of capitalism, investigative journalist Nate Halverson discovered it was not. At one point in the documentary Halverson confesses, “This project has kept me up at night more than all of my other investigative reporting projects combined.”
It is difficult to get reviews for a documentary movie compared to an entertainment movie but the following has been reported by movie critics:
“This is the holy s*** documentary of the year.” – RogerEbert.com
“A sleek complex international thriller.” – The Los Angeles Times
“Exposing a nearly invisible conspiracy to control the world’s food and water.” – Variety
“(85%) Quietly and seemingly out of sight, governments, private investors and mercenaries are working to seize food and water resources at the expense of entire populations.” – Rotten Tomatoes
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour recently interviewed the journalist and director behind the film, Nate Halverson and Gabriela Cowperthwaite, to discuss whether the fight over our most precious commodities could lead to geopolitical conflict.
“How World Leaders are Scrambling to Secure Food in the Shadows | Amanpour and Company” – PBS
“THE GRAB” is a global documentary thriller combining hard-hitting journalism from The Center for Investigative Reporting with the compelling character-driven storytelling of investigative journalist Nate Halverson and director Gabriela Cowperthwaite. In this film they take you around the globe to reveal one of the world’s biggest and least known threats.
The movie exposes both China and Saudi Arabia as encroaching on America’s food and water supplies. Saudi Arabia bought 15 square miles of La Paz County Arizona to establish hay fields to export hay to Saudi Arabia and China for their livestock. In so doing, they are unnaturally depleting the water table there.
At some point Halverson determined he needed more help so he recruited Marine veteran and travel videographer Mallory Newman. Newman has an interest in “food rights” and “inequities to food and water”. He also recruited Emma Schwartz an investigative reporter.
Schwartz determined the shocking revelation that mercenary armies (Blackwater) are being planned for and prepared to secure the food and water supplies of the elites who will control the food and water. This could explain Microsoft’s Bill Gates interest in acquiring so much farmland in the United States.
CONCLUSION:
The way this team of journalists has been spied on and threatened indicates the old adage, “Where there is smoke, there is fire,” meaning the journalists stumbled on to something and those behind it do not want it revealed!
At one point a Chinese CEO accidentally gives Halverson a thick book that says right on it, “NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES.” The implication is the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was behind the whole purchase of Smithfield foods.
It is to be noted that everything the foreign interests involved in this documentary have done is within current laws of the USA. What these world leaders are trying to do is feed their people and one cannot fault them for that. Where fault is to be found is with those working behind the scenes to utilize food as a weapon to attain power in the future and this seems to be bad players both foreign and domestic.
It is also to be noted that this movie highlights “climate change” as a reason for the global food shortages without mentioning “global overpopulation”. I have a problem with that.
To drive home the point I want to make here is this: In 2011 there were roughly 7 billion people in the world. Today there is an estimated 8.1 billion people in the world. The “World Population Clock” tracks this estimated number in real time here: .
“THE GRAB” is a very thought provoking movie that should put Americans on “high alert”. The movie runs about 1:45 hours in length and we found it online both legally (pay-per-view) and illegally.
A final thought I would leave is I care very deeply about the problem of “food insecurity” and people going hungry. So much so I became a charter board member of Illinois’ first community café, The Rochelle Kitchen Table back in 2013 (coincidentally). I have donated thousands of dollars to this very worthwhile IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit.
Bottom line, we need laws to protect foreign interests and the power hungry from attaining and monopolizing our farmlands and thus our food and water supplies!
Copyright © 2024 by Mark S. Schwendau
